Elucidations

By Matt Teichman

Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the ... more

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The podcast currently has 148 episodes available.

Elucidations episodes:

December 23, 2016 Episode 91: Paolo Santorio discusses counterfactuals
In this episode, Paolo Santorio argues that to explain what statements like 'If A were, then B would be' mean, we need to understand them as statements about causal networks.
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36min
November 20, 2016 Episode 90: Ásta Sveinsdóttir discusses social construction
In this episode, our guest argues that we confer social statuses on each other by treating each other has having different obligations and entitlements.
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30min
October 28, 2016 Episode 89: John Collins discusses language universals
In this episode, John Collins discusses the philosophical significance of Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar, along with some of the scientific evidence for it.
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42min
October 12, 2016 Episode 88: Kent Bach discusses jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice
In this episode, Kent Bach discusses the importance of subconscious processes that underlie ordinary, everyday reasoning.
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31min
September 11, 2016 Episode 87: Susanna Schellenberg discusses perceptual particularity
In this episode, Susanna Schellenberg argues that hallucination involves the very same ability as ordinary visual experience--it's just that the ability goes wrong.
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32min
August 18, 2016 Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes
In this episode, Daniel Smyth discusses the vast amount of background knowledge that goes into interpreting a photograph.
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47min
August 01, 2016 Episode 85: Bryce Huebner discusses race and cognitive science
In this episode, Bryce Huebner argues that our implicit racial biases are shaped by the physical environments we inhabit.
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36min
June 10, 2016 Episode 84: Amanda Greene discusses the legitimacy of democracy
In this episode, Amanda Greene argues that democracy is the form of government that most reliably leads to long-term stability and acceptance.
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44min
May 12, 2016 Episode 83: Bob Simpson discusses genealogical anxiety
In this episode, Bob Simpson discusses how a person should respond to the realization that they only believe something because of how they were brought up.
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36min
April 13, 2016 Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity
In this episode, Robert May discusses the problems that arise when we try to explain what simple statements of arithmetic are saying.
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42min

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